Middle English <bacche>, <bache> 'batch', <þacche> 'thatch', and <wacche> 'watch' are structurally parallel. The latter continues the Old English weak...
Hello everyone, in the course of my research I arrived at a question that I don't know where to find the answer of. The question is: Where, in which ancient...
Brian wrote: I don't know whether he says so or not, but that's via OFr <pousser> 'to breathe with difficulty, to wheeze (~1150 for a horse, beg. 14th c. for a...
I was wondering about these words in *-aN- I keep coming up with. The thing that annoys me is that if one ascribes it to a substrate one would have to posit a...
Bent Jørgensen: Stednavneordbog, on the island of Sjælland (Zealand) " 69. Sjælland, isl. skjaldekvad c. 950 Selund, senere vn. former Sjaland, Sjoland er...
What's the etymology of Latin adjectives ra:rus, seve:rus, ama:rus, ava:rus, se:rus, cla:rus, i:gna:rus, ca:rus ?Do they share a common suffix? Are they formed...
I am now (about) definitively convinced Nant- is not PIE nor Celtic. (macro-comparative) Root *nant?- Reflex in PIE : *nâ (Cf. Pokorny 971-2) Reflex in...
The relationship between the worship of Christian twin saints Cosmas (Kosmas) and Damianus (Damianos), and the Greco-Latin Dioscuri is clear and almost...
I am pleased to announce the publication of the following book - URL: http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/category/Non_Fiction/The_Lost_River_9780143068648.aspx ...
Could anyone send me a PDF of this article? "The Heimdall-Dyu comparison revisited" by Nicholas Allen JOURNAL OF INDOEUROPEAN STUDIES Bibliographic details...
Is there any proposede PIE origin for adjectival suffixes -aleos in Greek (tarbaleos, smerdaleos, azaleos) and -lis in Latin (mora:lis, civi:lis, curu:lis,...
It could be just a coincidence, but Kerynian golden-antlered hind, catched by Herakles in Hyperborea, seemed to be a reindeer, since hinds haven't antlers like...
http://www.ut.ee/Ural/kynnap/kpls.html 'The "fans" of the population from the Iberian and the Ukrainian refuges, in the Lapps' area of departure on the North...
... I keep on vacillating between those two options (which, typically, I've opted for since no one else does). From the perspective of your own model of the...
I've seen Torsten mention this a few times. I've also never seen anyone else even suggest this… ... I don't see how that suggests a substrate. But I will...
Dear Colleagues, The Editors and the Advisory Board of the Journal of Language Relationship are happy to announce the arrival of issue 3 (2010) of the Journal,...
Dear All, I've noticed that the question of Slavic ethnonyms has been discussed on this list already, but I'm particularly interested in the word "Sclaveni"; I...
Latin <arbiter> 'witness, hearer, arbitrator, judge' is of obscure origin. Various unsatisfactory explanations have been proposed. The one reasonably certain...
Is there any explanation or analysis of the reasons why palatals are absent in older West European languages and present in modern ones? Exemplifying: the...
Dear Members, I've come across the Russian legal term "pereznanie". Can somebody help me and tell me when this word was attested for the first time? I suppose...
Is there a PIE etymology for Greek ke:tos- "big fish, whale, sea monster"? Comparations were made to Latin squatina "skate, ray, flatten shark", from *kew&t-. ...
Dear Members, I would like to ask you for help. With my colleagues I have been wondering how well one can reconstruct the proto-languages of the individual...
